Why owners should expect more data transparency from their contractors

By AJ Waters, vice president industry solutions, InEight As the owner of a capital project, have you ever felt like you’re being held at arm’s length from your own project? As comic book billionaire Tony Stark once quipped, you pay for everything, design everything, make everyone look cooler, but at the end of the day, it feels like you’re not the boss.
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General electronic document management vs construction document management

By David Wagner, vice president of industry solutions at InEight. As a construction professional, you are used to working with project documentation all day long. So how come your organisation’s preferred systems are not accustomed to working the way you do? The fact is, most tools, such as SharePoint, Dropbox or Box are not ideal for managing capital project documentation.
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The game of construction: Finding new ways to win

By AJ Waters, InEight vice president, industry solutions I’ll admit it; I love football. It’s the ultimate team sport with a select group of people working to achieve one goal. Do your job as planned and glory awaits. Take a short cut, however, and it could mean catastrophe. And just like no game can be played (or won) without a goal, strategy and scoreboard, construction, like football, is team sport.
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Quick solutions for turnover package challenges

You think coordinating your busy schedule with that of your child’s and their extracurricular activities is difficult? Try pulling together turnover packages for capital projects where you have countless deliverables and dependencies across a whole spectrum of owner requirements and expectations.
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Why project controls are critical during times of economic uncertainty

By Brad Barth
InEight chief product officer
Oil and gas companies have been racing to respond to the worldwide spread of COVID-19. In an industry that is all too familiar with cyclical ups and downs and occasional geopolitical anomalies, COVID-19 hit like a global wrecking ball. The pandemic has shattered nearly every economic assumption in almost every part of the world, and it happened practically overnight.
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Why owners need an AI-driven project risk analysis

From an owner’s perspective, risk analysis means trying to determine that the amount of capital expenditure allocated to a venture is appropriate, i.e. the most cost-sensitive variable in our project is time.
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